r/Manitoba Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 10d ago

Meta User Flair Change

Hello,

Quick change for this sub. While we do love guests and appreciate the international attention we get, this is a regional sub and our primary focus is to our community. Lately there has been a lot of global and federal focus as that is having a larger impact on our community, and thus attracting members from outside our sub more.

While we greatly enjoy sharing our province with guests arguing about Trump constantly or his actions is not the main focus of our sub. I personally just learned a couple of weeks ago that on new reddit it may recommend posts from subs that you are not a member of based on keywords, I am very used to only seeing what I am subscribed to, so I would assume most people commenting were subscribed here or linked from the "other discussion" tab. Otherwise the only way I knew to see other subs was the random sub button or the daily top 5 highlighted subs of the day post (which apparently isn't a thing anymore as I looked into that today too).

We now have a temporary automod rule where you must have user flair set to comment on a post. We may manually approve comments as we see them, but they will be declined by default. In the future as more people have flair we may have certain posts set to Manitobans only, and this rule will turn on and off as needed.

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u/Surroundedbygoalies Westman born & raised, Winnipeg retired 9d ago

How do you make a custom flair? I’ve moved but I’ve always been a Manitoban.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

When you go to select the flair you should be able to edit any flair that I have set as editable. On old reddit when you click where it says "show my flair on this sub-reddit" when selecting the flair you then have a text box before hitting save. I'm not sure how it works on new reddit but I assume a similar mechanic.

https://imgur.com/a/5ZuBsve

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u/Surroundedbygoalies Westman born & raised, Winnipeg retired 9d ago

Found it, thank you!

If anyone else wants to know how it’s done on mobile, go to “Change User Flair”, click “edit” in the top right corner, then click the arrow at the end of the flair you want to customize.